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IGNOU MS-55 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. What is Physical Distribution Management? Describe its components. Also elucidate the System or Total approach to Physical Distribution Management (PDM).
2. What is the Bullwhip effect? Explain the various permutations and combinations to reduce this effect in Supply Chain Management (SCM).
3. What steps are to be followed while implementing IT software packages for supply chain management? Do these steps vary from package to package? How are they standardized?
4. Compare and contrast the complexity of incorporating transportation costs for an external fleet in India vs USA. How do the Road Transport Office (RTO) regulations in India influence transport rates and how do these rates vary across different states?
5. With more medical information available online than a human mind can assimilate, how will the role of doctors change in delivery healthcare services?
IGNOU MS-55 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Why it is said that, “The new supply chain game is becoming a competition between effective supply networks rather than individual corporations”.
2. Highlight the importance of location in supply chain network. What situations could result due to poor location?
3. What are the essential differences in a B2C and a B2B supply chain? List the respective characteristics that necessitate such differences?
4. What are pull and push strategies? Do you agree that a supply chain is usually a combination of both push and pull? Justify your answer.
5. “With information freely available on the Internet, the demand for consultants will reduce”. Comment on the statement.